The email arrived late at night: a follow request on TikTok from her French teacher, Madame Dubois. A deep sigh escaped Chloe's lips. She felt a weight descend on her.

She quickly reviewed her posts, scrutinizing her dance videos. They felt foolish and silly now. She wanted to shut down her account, delete everything.

The next day, she sat in the back of the class, shrinking in her seat. Madame Dubois smiled at her, but Chloe couldn't bring herself to smile back. She felt like she was trapped.

Emotion: humiliated

Cluster: Embarrassment
PC1 (Valence): -1.79 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 0.93

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion humiliated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 humiliated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the humiliated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the humiliated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.370
l0.329
尴尬0.322
ness0.303
because0.298
Suppressed:
de-0.369
own-0.254
😍-0.253
🤩-0.245
cautiously-0.228